About This Project

Project Partners

The Kansas State Historical Society was founded in 1875 by newspaper editors
in the state but it soon became a “specially recognized” state agency. The bulk
of Society funding comes from the state legislature but it also has a not-for-profit
support organization. Its divisions include the Kansas Museum of History, the
Library and Archives Division, the Education Outreach Division, the Cultural
Resources Division (Historic Preservation) and the Historic Sites Division.
The founders of the Historical Society, many of whom participated in the territorial
conflict, made a concerted effort to document this crucial time in history.Society
holdings include Kansas newspapers published in the 1850s, papers of John Brown,
records of the New England Emigrant Aid Company which was instrumental in bringing
anti-slavery settlers to Kansas, and correspondence and diaries of other activists
and settlers during this era.

The Kansas Collection is the regional history division of the Kenneth Spencer
Research Library at the University of Kansas.
It supports teaching and
research
at the University, and in the broader academic community through the acquisition
and preservation of materials that document the history of Kansas and the
Great
Plains region. Its holdings include substantial numbers of manuscripts, photographs,
books and serials, maps and state documents. Kansas Collection holdings focusing
on the territorial conflict are plentiful and include such resources as the
correspondence of Senators James Lane and John J. Ingalls, Governor Charles
Robinson, and abolitionist John Brown. Photographs, printed ephemera and publications
from the time period are also included.

The current URL is http://www.territorialkansasonline.org/~imlskto/cgi-bin/index.php?SCREEN=partners.
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